Re:DRM Broke Its Promise
by scarface74 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @12:02AM
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There's also Macrovision's response to Steve Jobs, following Apple's decision to exclude DRM from the iPod (arguably a major factor in the latter's popularity, and path-paving for the iPhone):
That’s not the context of Macrovision’s response. It’s not that Apple “excluded” DRM from the iPod. The real history.
2001- Apple did introduce the iPod with no DRM in 2001 but it made it hard to copy music from it.
2003 - When Apple introduce the music store, it added DRM support to the iPod, but for the time, and easy built in way to circumvent it - burn the music to a CD and re-rip
2007 pt. 1 - Every digital music store was struggling because their DRM wasn’t compatible with the iPod. The music industry wanted Apple to license FairPlay. Apple refused and Jobs posted his “Thoughts on Music” letter on Apple’s front page where he said instead of licensing FairPlay, if the music industry allowed all digital music sellers to sell DRM free music, they would have cross platform compatibility.
That’s not the context of Macrovision’s response. It’s not that Apple “excluded” DRM from the iPod. The real history.
2001- Apple did introduce the iPod with no DRM in 2001 but it made it hard to copy music from it.
2003 - When Apple introduce the music store, it added DRM support to the iPod, but for the time, and easy built in way to circumvent it - burn the music to a CD and re-rip
2007 pt. 1 - Every digital music store was struggling because their DRM wasn’t compatible with the iPod. The music industry wanted Apple to license FairPlay. Apple refused and Jobs posted his “Thoughts on Music” letter on Apple’s front page where he said instead of licensing FairPlay, if the music industry allowed all digital music sellers to sell DRM free music, they would have cross platform compatibility.
The Macrovision letter was in response to this.